KaoruNews & Storytelling
A sophisticated and calm male voice. Suitable for narration, news broadcasts, audiobooks, readings, lectures, and more.
Hear Kaoru in other languages
ElevenLabs has verified Kaoru in 20 languages. Each sample is the voice reading in that language.
Similar voices
Japanese male voices with a close tone.
Type your script and get the voiceover in about a minute. Free account, no credit card.
About Kaoru
A sophisticated and calm male voice. Suitable for narration, news broadcasts, audiobooks, readings, lectures, and more.
Kaoru is the #86 most used Japanese voice in the ElevenLabs library, out of 417. People generated 7.3M characters with it in the last year, and 4k ElevenLabs users added it to their voices. It was published in January 2026 and is verified in 20 languages.
Best for: narration.
- Provider
- ElevenLabs
- Language
- Japanese · Kanto
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Middle aged
- Tone
- Calm
- Published
- Jan 2026
- Models
- Multilingual v2, Flash, v3 (paid)
- Voice ID
NuhW57w81uacPyz9OIsB
Questions about Kaoru
Can I make a voiceover with Kaoru for free?
You can try it with a free JSON2Video account, no credit card: free voiceovers are up to 60 seconds. Paid plans remove the limit.
Can I use my Kaoru voiceovers on YouTube or in ads?
Yes. You can publish the voiceovers and videos you make with Kaoru on YouTube, TikTok, podcasts and ads, and use them in commercial projects.
Which languages can Kaoru speak?
ElevenLabs has verified Kaoru in 20 languages: Japanese, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
For developers: use Kaoru with the API
Add a voice element to any JSON2Video movie. It works the same from n8n, Make, Zapier and the CLI.
{
"type": "voice",
"model": "elevenlabs",
"voice": "NuhW57w81uacPyz9OIsB",
"text": "春になると、庭は色とりどりの花や鳴き鳥でいっぱいになります。古いオークの木は訪れる人々に日陰を提供し、バラの間で蝶々が踊ります。小さな噴水は静かな音を奏で、自然の美しさを楽しんでリラックスするのに最適なスポットとなります。"
}